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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…
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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
— Antonio Banderas
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no…
— Edmund Burke
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Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading…
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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in…
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The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the…
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We don't have to expect everything from those who govern us; that would be juvenile.
— Pope Francis
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God doesn't need our consent in order to govern us; He made us.
— R C Sproul
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It costs ten times more to govern us than it used to, and we are not governed one-tenth as good.
— Will Rogers
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea…
— Marquis de Sade
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the…
— Oscar Wilde
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To bring the matter to one point, Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?…
— Thomas Paine
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Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all…
— Walter Mosley
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